lipti
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: lip‧ti
Noun
lipti
- the trout sweetlips (Plectorhinchus pictus)
- the painted sweetlips (Diagramma pictum)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:lipti.
Anagrams
- pilit
Lithuanian
Etymology 1
Cognate with Latvian lipt (“to stick”), Proto-Slavic *lьnǫti (“to stick”). From Proto-Balto-Slavic *lip-, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick”).
Verb
lìpti (third-person present tense lim̃pa, third-person past tense lìpo)
- to stick, adhere to
- Synonyms: kibti, klijuotis
- 1919, Antanas Petrika, Atmosfera arba oro gazai ir jų ypatybės, OCLC 7216863:
- musų apatiniai drabužiai limpa prie odos
- our underwear sticks to the skin
- (figuratively) to cling to, be attracted to
- 1902, Jonas Biliūnas, “Klebonas”, in Ūkininkas, number 8:
- Prie lietuviškos duonos visi kaip musės prie medaus limpa!
- Everyone clings to Lithuanian bread like flies to honey.
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Conjugation
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Etymology 2
Compare Latvian lipt (“to climb”). Same origin as 'stick' meaning.
Verb
lìpti (third-person present tense lìpa, third-person past tense lìpo)
- to climb
- Synonym: kopti
- 1906, Jonas Biliūnas, “Piestupys”, in Lietuvos ūkininkas, number 20:
- Atsargiai perėjova upelį ir pradėjova lipti ant kalno.
- They carefully crossed the stream and started to climb the hill.
Conjugation
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References
- “lipti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2023
- Derksen, Rick (2015), “lipti I; lipti II”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 288